- Irish company lets you pay for Xbox purchases using your mobile phone Irish mobile services company Phonovation has expanded its mobile payments service to include the purchase of Xbox LIVE Gold membership and Microsoft Points. Microsoft Points are the universal coin with which users can purchase games, movies and TV shows on their Xbox.
- Dropbox gets serious about business, introducing added security features Dropbox is busy cosying up with businesses, having recently introduced a new admin console giving company IT administrators "greater visibility and control over how their organisation uses Dropbox". Now the cloud storage company is going one step further by introducing single sign-in, or SSO.
- RTÉ Player to include movies for the first time RTÉ Player is to include movies for the first time later this week, the national broadcaster announced in a tweet earlier this evening.
- Free ecommerce accelerator hopes to get more Irish businesses selling online NDRC's Inventorium, a programme that helps individuals, startups, and existing businesses get ideas off the ground, in association with the Irish Internet Association (IIA), has launched Clicktailing, an ecommerce accelerator programme that hopes to get 20 Irish businesses selling along within five weeks.
- Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, down 4.1% in three months Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, with the social network losing 94,620 active users, or 4.11% of its user base in the country, in the previous three months.
- Spotify competitor, Rdio, launches in Ireland and other countries Music streaming service, and Spotify competitor, Rdio has launched in Ireland and six other countries.
- More Irish startups secured investment in 2012, €269 million raised More and more Irish companies and startups are securing capital investment but the value of those investments is decreasing, that's according to the annual Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey.
- Facebook is expanding its workforce in Ireland, 100 new jobs available Facebook is expanding its workforce at its international headquarters in Ireland, adding 100 new positions and growing the company's total head count to 500 at its base in Ireland's capital, Dublin.
- Seismic activity from North Korea's latest nuclear test recorded in Ireland Energy generated from North Korea's latest nuclear test has been recorded as far away as Ireland, with Irish seismometers in Donegal and Dublin picking-up an "explosion-like" event early this morning.
- Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner confirms deletion of Facebook facial recognition data in the EU Both the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Germany have independently confirmed today that all Facebook facial recognition data of European Union citizens has been deleted by the social network.